Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Matt" data-source="post: 4393990" data-attributes="member: 1213">Elric's been doing a good job of defending me, but I obviously need to addres some of this stuff directly.First of all, a general apology about this fight not being as organized as it should have.  I've been extremely busy IRL.  Second, a word on difficulty.  Due to the inefficience of PBP gaming, I'm not big on easy fights.  If we are going to do a fight that you'll probably win, it might as well be a tough fight.  My view of FIating is basically as villain points. Since villains have no pp cap, they could have unlimited ranks of the luck feat, so instead in MM they get no hp (generally...I will sometimes give them some luck limited to being used to power certain feats and powers) but can buy them by giving hp to the good guys.  I did use it a lot this fight, mainly because I didn't give this particular CF battlesuit sufficient capabilities, so as a seriously major BBEG  I was more willing to let him use them.  Speaking of which, regarding his powers he does in fact have nearly plot-level technopathy (Its POSSIBLE to resist, but its unlikely).  Optic attacking him is basically like Wolverine attacking Magneto.  However, what Optic wanted to do was really, really cool so I let him spend an hp to negate it.  Its unlikely that Optic CAN get good enough to challenge CF directly techwise.  In fact, probably should give Optic an HP for a complication every time in the future that he has to face CF.  What Optic CAN do to improve his technopathy though is trade in a bunch of the ranks of Datalink (your range is like to the moon...but you cant target stuf you can't otherwise perceive), for ranks in Quickness: Limited To Computer Actions, which costs 1pp/3 ranks.  2 or 3 pp in that will make you much more powerful, since computer stuff technically takes quite a bit of time.  Also make sure your computer skill is maxed, and maybe even up int although its pricy.</blockquote>

Verification